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🗓️ 28 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Another one is the Joneses at 27 now. New porcelain paving. Looks like Taralis Nordic. Everyone's going Nordic these days. Is the same fella doing it again? Ooh, dark bath. He's using Darkbath. Seek a jointing compound. Betty's got a trade account at you, son. Terralis porcelain paving from £22 per square metre and seek a fast-fits jointing compound at 2999 each. |
0:21.9 | Plus, get 10% off if you buy two tubs. |
0:24.2 | All trade prices XVAT at 20%. |
0:26.8 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses. |
0:28.7 | And the Evanses. Monster House Presents |
0:39.0 | Back in 2016, Karen and I recorded an interview with Dr. Corey Convertito, |
0:47.0 | curator of the collections at the Fort East Martella Museum in Key West, a museum |
0:52.1 | a museum probably best known for its stuffed resident Robert the Doll. |
0:57.6 | In December of 2019, I was working for Apex Process Consultants, an IT consulting company out of |
1:04.0 | Michigan, and we worked hard and we traveled a lot, but we always ended the year with epic |
1:08.8 | Christmas parties. And that year, we traveled to Key West. |
1:13.0 | And while most of my team was out focused on enjoying the tropical weather |
1:16.4 | and laid back culture of our southernmost American city, |
1:19.8 | I just had to go see the subject of Dr. Convertito's interview, Robert the doll. |
1:26.0 | Robert is a century-old doll in a sailor outfit stored at the |
1:29.9 | museum in Key West. He was the property of third-generation Key West resident Robert Eugene |
1:35.5 | Otto, a local artist and socialite. The doll was named after Gene and is the focal point of |
1:42.3 | decades of stories about mysterious behaviors and |
1:45.0 | curses. The museum gets letters every day from people around the world who think they've been |
1:49.8 | cursed by bad luck from this little stuffed character. Of course, I was skeptical of the |
1:55.9 | alleged curse, and I didn't bother asking Robert's permission for a photo. And not only that, |
2:00.7 | but when we were buying our huge bundle of Robert the doll merchandise... and I didn't bother asking Robert's permission for a photo. And not only that, |
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